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Drama


Posthumous

* ''The growth of a soul'', translated by Claud Field, 1913 * ''På gott och ont'' (''Of Good and Evil''), 1914 * ''Genom öknar till arvland; eller, Moses'' (''Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land; or, Moses'') (''Through Deserts to Ancestral Lands ''), twenty-one tableaux, 1918 * ''Hellas; eller, Sokrates'' (''Hellas; or, Socrates'') (''Hellas ''), nineteen tableaux, 1918 * ''Lammet och vilddjuret; eller, Kristus'' (''The Lamb and the Wild Beast; or, Christ'') (''The Lamb and the Beast ''), fifteen tableaux, 1918 * ''Toten-Insel'' (''Isle of the Dead''), one scene, 1918 * ''Han och hon: En själs utvecklingshistoria'' (''He and She: A soul's development history''), 1919 * ''Efterspelet'' (''Epilogue''), 1920 * ''Strindbergs brev till Harriet Bosse'':
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, 1932 * ''August Strindbergs och Ola Hanssons brevvåxling'', 1938 * ''Åttitalsnoveller'' (''Stories of the eighties''), 1959 * ''Det sjunkande Hellas'' (''Greece in Decline''), three-act verse, 1960 * ''Brev till min dotter Kerstin'', letters, 1961 * ''Ur ockulta dagboken'', journals, 1963, edited by Torsten Eklund * ''Hövdingaminnen'', illustrations by Otte Sköld, 1963


Translations and adaptions

* ''Den starkare'' (1906), translated by Francis J. Ziegler as ''The Stronger'' in
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(V.17, n.1) * ''Svanevit'' (1909), translated by Francis J. Ziegler as ''Swanwhite'' * ''Fordringsägare'' (1910), translated by Francis J. Ziegler as ''The Creditor'' * ''Moderskärlek'' (1910), translated by Francis J. Ziegler as ''Mother Love'' * ''Inför döden '' (1911), translated by
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as ''Facing Death'' * ''Fröken Julie'' (1912), translated by Charles Recht as ''Countess Julia'' * ''Paria'' (1912), translated by Bjoerkman and published in ''Plays by August Strindberg: Creditors, Pariah'' * ''Le Plaidoyer d'un fou'' (1912), translated by Ellie Schleussner as '' The Confession of a Fool'' * ''
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'' (1912), translated by Claud Field as ''The Inferno'' * '' Giftas'' (1913), translated by Ellie Schleussner as ''Married'' * ''Tjänstekvinnans son'' (1913), translated by Claud Field as ''
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'', intro by Henry Vacher-Burch * ''I havsbandet'' (1913), translated by Elizabeth Clarke Westergren as ''On the Seaboard: A Novel of the Baltic Islands'' * ''Historiska miniatyrer'' (1913), translated by Claud Field as ''Historical Miniatures'' * ''I havsbandet'' (1913), translated by Ellie Schleussner as ''By the Open Sea'' * ''En blå bok'' (1913), translated by Claud Field as ''Zones of the Spirit: A Book of Thoughts'', intro by Arthur Babillotte * ''Samum'' (1914), translated by Horace B. Samuel and published in ''Paria ndSimoon'' * ''Advent: Ett mysterium'' (1914), translated by Claud Field as ''Advent'' * ''På gott och ont'' (1914), translated by Claud Field as ''The Martyr of Stockholm'' * ''Sagor'' (1930), translated by L. J. Potts as ''Tales'' * ''Erik XIV'' (1931), translated by Joan Bulman and published in ''Master Olof and Other Plays'' * ''Fröken Julie'' (1950), translated by C. D. Locock as ''Lady Julie'' * ''Kristina'',''Carl XII'', and ''Gustav III'' (1955), translated by W. Johnson and published in ''Queen Christina, Charles XII, ndGustav III'' * ''Gustav Adolf'' (1957), translated by Walter Johnson as ''Gustav Adolf'' * ''Påsk'' (1957), translated by Elizabeth Sprigge as ''
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'' * ''Hemsöborna'' (1959), translated by Elspeth Harley Schubert as ''The People of Hemso'' * ''Öppna brev till Intima Teatern'' (1959), translated by W. Johnson as ''Open Letters to the Intimate Theatre'' * ''Strindbergs brev till Harriet Bosse'':
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(1959), translated by Arvid Paulson as ''Letters of Strindberg to Harriet Bosse'' * ''Fröken Julie'' (1961), translated by E. M. Sprinchorn as ''Miss Julie'' * ''
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'' (1912), translated by Mary Sandbach as ''Inferno'' * ''Leka med elden'' (1963), translated by Michael Meyer as ''Playing With Fire'' * ''Fröken Julie'' (1965), adapted by
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as Miss Julie (opera) * ''Hemsöborna'' (1965), translated by Arvid Paulson as '' Natives of Hemsö'' * ''Ur ockulta dagboken'' (1965), translated by Mary Sandbach as ''From an Occult Diary: Marriage with Harriet Bosse'' * ''Dödsdansen'' (1966), translated by
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as ''The Dance of Death'' * ''Tjänstekvinnans son'' (1966) translated by E. M. Sprinchorn as ''The Son of a Servant: The Story of the Evolution of a Human Being (1849–1867)'' * ''Le Plaidoyer d'un fou'' (1967), translated by E. M. Sprinchorn as ''A Madman's Defense'' * ''Syndabocken'' (1967), translated by Arvid Paulson as ''The Scapegoat'' * ''Le Plaidoyer d'un fou'' (1968), translated by Anthony Swerling as ''A Madman's Manifesto'' * '' Dance of Death (film)'' (1969), film starring
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* ''Klostret'' (1969), translated by Mary Sandbach as ''The Cloister'' * ''Miss Julie'' (1971); this version starred
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* '' Ensam'' (1971), translated by Arvid Paulson as ''Days of Loneliness'' * '' Giftas'' (1972), translated by Mary Sandbach as ''Getting Married'' * ''Sömngångarnätter och vakna dagar (verse)'' (1978) adapted by Arvid Paulson as ''
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'' and ''Biographical'' * ''Taklagsöl'' (1987), translated by David Mel Paul and Margareta Paul in ''The Roofing Ceremony'' and ''The Silver Lake'' (another short story by Strindberg) * ''En häxa'' (1991), translated by Mary Sandbach as ''A Witch'' * ''Kaspers Fet-Tisdag – ett Fastlagspel'' (2011), translated by Jonathan Howard as ''
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'' * ''Herr Bengts hustru'' (2011), translated by Laurence Carr and Malin Tybåhl as '' Mr. Bengt’s Wife'' * ''
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'' (2011), '' Karl II'' (2012) and '' Gustav Adolf'' (2013), translated by Wendy Weckwerth


Poetry, fiction, other, autobiography and other

* '' From Fjerdingen and Svartbäcken'', short stories, 1877 * '' The Red Room'', novel, 1879 * ''Gamla Stockholm'' (''Old Stockholm''), with Claes Lundin, cultural history, 1880 * ''I Vårbrytningen: Ungdomsarbeten'', for children, Volumes I-VI, 1881 * ''Kulturhistoriska studier'', 1881 * ''Dikter och verkligheter'' (''Poems and Realities''), verse and prose, 1881 * ''Svenska folket i helg och söcken, i krig och i fred, hemma och ute; eller, Ett tusen år av svenska bildningens och sedernas historia'' (''The Swedish People on Holy Day and Everyday, in War and Peace, at Home and Abroad; or, A Thousand Years of the History of Swedish Culture and Manners''), illustrations by
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and C. E. Fritze, Volume I, 1881 and volume II, 1882 * ''Det nya riket'' (''The New Kingdom''), essay, 1882 * ''Svenska öden och äventyr'' (''
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''), novel, 1883 * ''Dikter på vers och prosa'' ('' Poems in Verse and Prose''), 1883 * ''Likt och olikt'', 1884 * ''Sömngångarnätter och vakna dagar (verse)'', 1884 * ''
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'', ≈1884 * '' Giftas'' (''Married''), two volumed short stories, Schleussner 1884–1886 * ''Kvarstadsresan'' (''Journey into Detention''), autobiography, 1885 * ''Utopier i verkligheten'' ('' Utopias in Reality''), short stories, 1885 * ''Jäsningstiden'' (''Time of Ferment''), autobiographical novel, 1886 * ''Tjänstekvinnans son'' (''
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''), autobiography, 1886–1909 * ''Hemsöborna'' ('' The People of Hemsö''), novel, 1887 * ''Vivisectioner'', (''Vivisections''), essays includes ''On Psychic Murder'', 1887 * ''Blomstermaalningar och djurstycken ungdomen tillaegnade'' (''Flowers and Animals''), popular science, 1888 * ''
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'' (''Le Plaidoyer d'un fou''), 1888 * ''Tschandala'', novel, 1888 * ''Skaerkarlslif: Beraettelser'' (''Life in the Skerries''), short story, 1888 * ''Bland franska boender'' ('' Among French Peasants''), non-fiction, 1889 * ''Om modern drama och modern teater'' (''On Modern Drama and the Modern Theatre''), essay, 1889 * ''En haxa'' (''A Witch''), novel, 1890 * ''I havsbandet'', novel, 1890 * ''Tryckt och otryckt'' (''Printed and unprinted''), plays, essays, and other writings, 1890–1897 * ''Les Relations de la France avec la Suede jusqu'a nos jours'', 1891 * ''Antibarbarus'', essays, 1892 * ''Jardin des plantes'' (''Botanical Gardens''), science, 1896 * ''Hortus Merlini: Lettres sur la chimie; Sylva sylvarum'', 1897 * ''
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'', novel/autobiography, 1897 * ''Svensk natur'' (''Swedish Nature''), 1897 * ''Legender'' (''Legends: Autobiographical Sketches''), 1898 * ''Klostret'' (''Monastery''), novel,1898 * ''Typer och prototyper inom mineralkemien: Festskrift till firandet af Berzelii femtioaarsminne'', 1898 * ''Jakob brottas'' (''Jacob Wrestling''), journal, 1898 * ''Samvetsqval'' (''Remorse''), 1899 * ''Vaerldshistoriens mystik'' ((''The Mysticism (or ''Mystique'' or ''Hidden Meaning'') of World History'')), essay, 1901 * ''Fagervik och Skamsund'' (''Fair Haven and Foul Strand''), 1902 * ''Ensam'' ('' Alone''), novella, 1903 * ''Sagor'' (''Fairy tales''), stories, 1903 * ''Oeppna brev till Intima Teatern'', essays, 1903 * ''Götiska rummen'' (''Gothic Rooms''), novel, 1904 * ''Historiska miniatyrer'' (''Historical Thumbnails''), fiction, 1905 * ''Ordalek och smaakonst'' (''Word Play and Miniature Art''), poems, 1905 * ''Taklagsoel'', novella, 1907 * ''Syndabocken'', novella, 1907 * ''Svarta fanor'' (''Black Banners''), novel, 1907 * ''Kammarspel'', 1907 * ''En blaa bok'' (''A Blue Book''), essays and journal entries, four volumes, 1907–1912 * ''Fabler och smårre beråttelser'' (''Fables and Minor Stories''), 1909 * ''Shakespeares Macbeth, Othello, Romeo och Julia, Stormen, Kung Lear, Henrik VIII, En Midsommarnattsdröm'' (''Shakespeare's Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, King Lear, Henry VIII, A Midsummer Night's Dream''), 1909 * ''Tal till Svenska Nationen om olust i landet, levernet, litteraturen och laerdomen ... Sjunde upplagan'' (''Speeches to the Swedish Nation''), 1910 * ''Författaren: En sjåls utvecklingshistoria'' (''Author: A psychic development history''), 1910 * ''Folkstaten: Studier till en stundande författningsrevision'' (''People's State: Studies in a forthcoming Constitutional Court''), 1910 * ''Modersmaalets anor'' (''The Origins of Our Mother Tongue''), essay,1910 * ''Vaerldspraakens roetter'' (''The Roots of World Languages''), 1910 * ''Religioes renaessans'' (''Religious Renaissance''), 1910 * ''Kina och Japan: Studier'' (''China and Japan Studies''), 1911 * ''Kinesiska språkets hårkomst'' (''Chinese language descent''), 1912 * ''Samlade skrifter'' (''Collected Works''), fifty-five volumes, edited by John Landquist


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